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Grass1,onpers in A1peria

Grasshoppers are devastating the fields
of Algeria in q terrible manner. An at
tempt to destroy the eggs proved useless.
In one district $4,000 gallons have been
collected and burned. Thisrepresents the
destruction Of 1850, 900, GOO insects. Chi
capo Times.
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KilIRd hY EriHhf.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Aug. 80 Mrs
Mile Lancaster, of Kalamazoo, while visit
ing her sister, the wife of Seth Guthrie, Chi
cago & Grand Trunk railroad conductor iv-
ing in this city, accidentally slipped and fell
into the water at the boat house on Lake
Gugnac. The water was only four feet deep,
but Mrs. Lancaster was instantly killed, the
fright producing hemorrhage of the heart.
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Carter Harrison's Daughter Married.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-The wedding of
Miss Lima Harrison, daughter of ex-Mayor
Harrison, Of Chicago, and Heaton Owsley, of
Chicago, was celebrated Friday evening at
Trinity church. The Rev. Daniel ]. Odell
offlciated. The bride is one of the most pop
alar society ladies of Chicago. and is also well
known in this city.
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A Cincinnati Conspirator surrenders

CINCINNATI, Aug. 29.-John J. Scully, ex-
iniirnary director, indicted for conspiracy to
defraud the city, gave himself up to the
authorities Saturday morning for trial, and
was placed behind the bars Of the county
Jail Scully has been among the missing
ever since lie was first indicted In 1885,
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A Salvation Army Man Sentenced.

LANCASTER, Pa, Aug. 29.-John William
Dufin, of the Salvation Army, convicted
here Of enticing Lizzie Engle, minor, from
her parents, was Saturday sentenced to one
years Imprisonment at hard labor and to pay
q fine of 500
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Mrs. witter Held Ia, Murder

DENVER Colo, Aug. 20 = Mrs. John A..
Witter, who has been on trial for two weeks
charged with poisoning her husband, waa
Friday night hold III $40 0O0 " await the ac'
ton OF the grand jury.
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eB For information in reference to
Lands and Towns owned by the CHICAGO
MILWAUKEE 81 ST. PAUL RAILWAY Con-
PANY, write to H.. G. HAUGAN, Land
Commissioner, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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TO and FRO" The Northwest l.
TICKET OFFICES:

AHnHrU to be made. Cut this out and
MIIWkV return to Us, and we will send
WIIWI | you free, something of great
hiSitS value and Importance to you,
that will start you in business which will
bring you in more money right away than
anything else in this world. ANY one can do
the work and live at home. Either sex; all
ages. Something new that just coins money
for all workers. We will start you; capital
not needed. This is one Of the genuine, i'm
portant chances of a lifetime. Those who
are ambitious and enterprising will not de-
lay. Grand outfit free. Address TRUE &
CO., Augusta, Maine. decl-86
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All Travellers

Whether by land or sea, who are
liable to be out of reach of drug stores
and doctors, would do well to have
supply of Ayers Pills at hand. For
this purpose, the Pills are put up in
bottles as we'll as boxes, and may be
conveniently carried in ones pocket.
Six of the most distinguished physicians
of Syracuse, N. Y, i'll giving their joint
testimony as to the excellent medical
combination of Ayers Pills, make this
point "Their beautiful coating of gela-
tine and sugar is a great advantage, in
that it protects them from change by
time or climate, and renders them pleas
ant and even agreeable to take"
"During the twenty-five years I have
lived on the frontier" writes John
Mcdowell, of Sweetwater, Col, ayers
Pills have been my best friend. / have
lived, mostly, where there was no doc
tor within twenty miles, and have been
hard sick several times. l always kept
Ayers medicines on hand, and with
them, and the Almanac, have pulled
through. I have also doctored others,
and believe I have saved some valuable
lives by the use of Ayers Pills."
Ayers Pills,
Prepared by DR.. j. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Dealers in Medicine.
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Whcat-No. 1 white cash, 7714c; No. 2 red cash
74c asked; August, 74c; September, 741sc; Octo-
Der, 75s4c; December 1850; May, S434c asked
Corr-No. z, 4ac nominal Oats No 2 21I1c
bid; No 2 white, 293sc asked.
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MILWAUKEE,, WEI aug. ~
Wheat-Dull; cash, 69c; September. 7o16c; Oc-
ober, 7OI4c Corn Dull; No 3, 4o14c. Oats
Easy; No. white, CSC Rye-Noninal; No. ],
Rc. Enthusiastically; September, 514c.
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THE woMAN,s IDEAL.


Heroes Of Fiction and the Real Men OF
the Everyday World.
An English writer, in criticisng novelists
In general, remarks that the ideal heroes OF
women are more picturesque and interesting
than those delineated by men, for the reason
that men are always striving to represent
consistency Of character, while women give
little attention, comparatively, to this point.
The idea, RIGHT or wrong is worth the con-
sideration of h reader, who, IL much given
to works OF action, will recall instances
which contradict the assertion powerfully.
When Charlotte Bronte, for instance, de-
sired leading male character for her Jane
Eyre" she did not create a nobleman OF
vast estates so faultless In morals and de-
pertinent as TO be without manly force or
manly muscle; on the contrary, she framed
her character from the man she was most
familiar with. Her fathers stern and I'M.
relenting disposition, and her brothers
semi-brutality of nature, crept in as she
modelled Rochester. Treating those antago-
nistic elements OF strength and weakness,
the idealization came from her own starving
heart.
It is the fortune Of some women noyelists
to know q class Of troubadour-like men,
who, while not quite effeminate in charac-
ter, yet just escape being sweet" How
deity have they been initiated with celestial
air." and pushed forward to round out q
plot, OF, used as objects" have served TO
show what can be done with natures odds
and ends and thrums Other women novel
lists know of sterner stuff: men never to be
leveled off except by the ebb and flow of hard
fortune, and yet, while proving that
The hero ia not fed on sweets,
Daily his own heart he eats,
they finally succumbt to that influence which
has made many brave man avert his
eyes from girl, and carry q rosebud into
battle.
Women, as a rule, write complete book
from disjointed studies. as artists make o
landscape from sketches. Associations and
surroundings supply the general features OF
the work, the freshness OF both contributing
greatly to the production of striking charac
ter. The ability TO individualize and give
action to ideal conceptions j. really, how
ever, the test Of all fiction-writing.
GRACE INoLK.
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TWO GOOD GIRLS.
The Girl Who Helps Mother and the One
Who Helps Herself.

The Girl Who Helps Mother and the One
Who Helps HERSELF
There is girl, and / love to think on her
and talk of her, who comes in late when
therei is company, who wears pretty little
air of mingled responsibility and anxiety
with her youth, whom the others seem TO
depend on and look TO for many comforts.
She is the girl who helps mother In her own
home she is blessed little saint and COM
forter. She takes unfinished tasks from the
tired, stiff fingers that falter at their work
her strong young figure is staff upon which
the gray-haired, white-faced mother leans
and Is rested. She helps mother with the
spring sewing, with the weeks mending.
with cheerful conversation and congenial
companionship that some girls do not think
worth while wasting on only mother. And
when there comes day when che must
bend as girls must often bend over the old
WORKOUT body of mother lying unheedful In
her coffin, rough hands folded, her long dis
quiet merged in rest, something very sweet
will be mingled with her loss, and the girl
who helped mother will find benediction
of peace upon her head and in her heart
The girl VINO works-God bless heri--is
another girl whom / know. She IL brave
and active. She is not too proud to earn her
own living, or ashamed to be caught at her
daily task. She is studious, and pafnstaking.
aDo patient. She smiles at you from behind
counter or desk. There Is q memory Of her
sewn into each slken gown. She is like a
beautiful young mountaineer already far up
the hill, and the sight Of her should be fine
inspiration for US all. II is an honor to know
this girl--to be worthy of her regard. Her
hand may be stained with factory grease or
printers ink, but 1t is an honest hand and
helping hand. It stays misfortune ffom
many homes 1t il the one shield that pro
tects many forlorn little family from the
almshouse and asylum - Oafhar5ns Cole.
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and q picture of this famous lit
tie boat Is given Ia the initial cut
because 1t was the first steamer ever
launched on the Upper Congo and has
assisted In some of the most remarkable
discoveries. Up the Kassai affluent
pulled the En- Avant, turning at last into
its mighty branch, the Sankuru, q grand
river 1900 feet wide, which Wolff
assembled for nearly 500 miles, follow
ing q course nearly due east a little
south Of four degrees south latitude.
Then when the Sankuru turned to the
south Wolff pushed up it's Lonie mi affiu-
emit, still stesming almost due east until
he had penetrated within a few days
march by land of Nyangwe, famous
trading centre, almost exactly midway
between the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
A navigable waterway still stretched
eastward, but an accident compelled
Wolff to turn down the stream again.
Wolff had discovered grand new fin
vial highway, subtending the great north
ern bend Of the Congo, leading from the
Atlantic to Central Africa and inter-
rupted only by the cataracts in the lower
Congo, around which the railroad Is to
be built. He made this journey through a
denscly- peopled region, where towns Of
$1,000 inhabitants often line the river
banks. He estimated the population to
be as dense as In some parts of Germany.
OF the many thousands of people who
swarm over these fertile plains or range
through the great forests hardly scrap
Of information had ever reached the out
side world, and these tribes had seen
none of the many products the white
man introduces into savage lands.
1t was supposed when Stanley wrote
his last book that the great tributaries Of
the Middle Congo followed, in the main,
north and south direction. The big
gest surprise geographers have had for
many day was when Grenfell, Wiss-
mann and Wolff proved that some of
the greatest affiuenis, like the Kassai, the
Sankuru, the Juapa and others flow hun
dreds of miles west before their waters
reach the Congo. Thus the Lomami
meets the Congo 800 miles west of the
point where Stanley in his last map con-
jectured its mouth to be, and the place
where he believed the great Kassai joined
the Congo is 800 miles east of the real
point of meeting. 1t results that the
chief tributaries are much lonyer than
they were believed to be, and on some Of
them steamboats, may penetrate through
lands teeming with people to the very
heart of the continent. Stanley himself
has hardly tasted deeper of the
glories of first-hand exploration than
the half-dOZen men who are COM
pleting his work ia the Congo valley.
It was great discovery that Wissmann
made nearly two years ago during his
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DWARF CONCERTS.
The Latest Partisan idea I'm the way o
Popular Amusements.


me Latest Partisan idea In the Way
The Parisians have hit on a new idea in
,oe.,, esa.,a,,, Tha s,,ao.a,o. a. ., 80, ,,,.,o
- 49, .'a''''e'' rug speo'aeol - iis' in1ro-
uuced INTO pretty care carpeted elegantly
furnished, and lighted with gas dimmed by
blue glass, which gives soft and mysterious
annearance 10 tho surro,lndines From this
drawing.room cafe one is introduced into
another room--or rather sort OF passage or
gallery-perfectly dark, along which are ar
ranged comfortable chairs. Seated in one of
thess the .nectator f,nds before him a long
,nsoe' We -. H.. 800 - .o"s
iedge' INTO which are iet irameu pieces Oh
glass, one before each person. These pieces
of glass are about foot square. Looking
closely. one sees in the glass the exact repre.
sontat;on ~ the stage Of a theatre ths
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ked, As the neat handmaiden met her at

,.kad =. ~. n..t ts,,.,,, a;dan n,ek her nj
A.. - s' 49, : '-'->''''
ssoh -. - a. -. See. >, r.,,,;ad
aF.,,- 49, -.s1.sl,,.. 40, r.t,~day soon
49, Won srS $3.50 ,n.s... la. NJ Oymolu's
A.. ,,r.ttv
ons v;.h Az oh;cIs IT, .' IA M. norninc
o-.s "-s-' VIZ snloAs anu s-A.s e.,tsS (
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t,-ss .nS Ia - .to - 49, 10 Gould
srS sho l~ ss. az, 80 ~ s.Ss S
ho,,o ,7d ,;,.h. - o., ~. 49, .,,rn;ne IN
Meg;ln - s '''
"on;ta rich. vh,ch r,c.,,ra. did YOU
show him Marv Anns9,
81 ast him 70 Wait q ,,i,,,ta y resn,ne3 the
girl smoothing her anron compIacentlv.
1and uada tho sty5;o l1,sr ,,,,;,a nice before
I showed him in Iifssd the big n;otnre--
the one 90 the vor,, iadr w;tlS two long
plaits of lair down her back-,
,sAfarvarat Marf,;po TTar Stockings - said
Meo;lye $3.50. Ia h-oo...
sss, - :. .-'s y
Anu 4 pun ~ On .ne es'Se. ",u ~ IN,
oe'Aueiiui' Went on the mao gnoiy- ne
gentleman seemed very much TOOK with II !;
and then he looked at the little picture"
"Sour Grapes" interpolated Michael An
gelo smiling.
"And then he asked me for pen and ink,
and then he set down and wrote you this
letter, SIR" Here she produced from her
pocket two letters. ''This other came by
post this morning." she added, giving both
to him.
Hastily stufing the post-letter into his
pocket, Megilp tore open Mr. Zerubbabels
communication. When he had read it, he
the drawing-room, and shut the door on the
astonished Mary Anne.
"Madgel Madgei it's the best joke-you
must raise that girls wages Ave pounds Q
year, and give her gown or something.
Pom my word, You must. She's done US a
splendid turn. Read thatr'
He handed the open letter TO Mrs Megilp.
1t ran as follows:
DEAR srn-I have seen your picture. sMar-
garet Mending Her Stockings" It's taken my
fancy. I'll buy 1t of you on the following
terms: III remit the bill OF sale and give you
soo. II you socept, Dill OF SAFE remi..ea ny TO
'"i" i'o''' iep's c.n .s z .espeu..a'
"sour Grapes: ~ $50 is n lot of money.EM.Z.
"Pm afraid he has made mistake. He
meant TO buv .Chloe.,n said Mrs. Megilp,
uneasilv.
"Nonsense. INV dearp retorted her
husband.n Here he makes me an
offer in black-and-white for Margaret
Mendinp Her stockings., He ought to know
what he wants shall wire accentance al
once and we'll hurn The hin Of sale to-mor-
row morn;nen
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i che Kaaea3 - Ctar1ox, DooI ITHACA talf
s..I,ra~. e', sai ~ e..i,, Sno q, Vvy,ha-
cha chs, ~ tSn,r rsJdIss nv 49, tha foress
r;r- ,sS, -ra;sas ~ tha ,,,h tIt. ,,,a, rocs
theS Nd Pa 49, ssar III hafora Wisss, am
Nd n,,shed ;oiaa5 - en- II,,na-
Ra.s., pS tssteud;,.m - a.. 49, pt tha
rivs, - IL o,tS n" S;s"a.oraJ
th;s o-ee. R,,loha tr;ha wSo welcomed
S s..s uaeDH sA ~, y nv SeIes
~ n,'n ~ 1 t;s Dlessing anu Vlleleu
1T ss,s LIN iiIS no ".enou ~ ~.
~, a0u ..ea nlnisea arong psopiS, MnS
so.,.h, y;sas Ss.a .ee S.'.,.is',.ss
lbs ha5 $500 snH 49, $500 20 1850
s ~" haS S rSoh,h;taS AN reahSr naI,,s
s.,;T,a III, hss;os-Nd 4, Ga r,ho
I;vaS 4, ~" az erd - -hor, thew AZ.
rectsd 20 90 ofts- Sao,h aost II
R,,Ioha cs,S. &c ,,oha5 ~, ~. ,,,,o,.
and Id h1 ths -vh;,a nsar .har star,ed
~, thosr 49, ,,o 49, -.- s-'SN
Eor ronS, toy as, eoo.ad H. .ha
c-ast r,,-ar , VI yroh ~ w;ss'a,,s
Ss,,,.,,ao 49, 80" Nj. ~ ~ os Th-.,
nassaJ throno-h avar sS,, 'no o,ntT;ao r;ch
and fsrtiia r,sa,;r~ ons hostiia IA :,
f-;arSi,, ts;t,as arS ~ Sas. the,s saaohaA
the Cnya 800 aU5 S.o r S - pooi Nnoiao,,a
fanors ,Sards 49, oS samI 100
ss,,is,is. AZ .ha hiSI;u stha -
than tb "a not ~. ~ obs ~ Va. .he sIjgp,est
iooE ~ thssr queen ;ss,o one WIZ
io,, ssn, sba q ioaSe,.'s. S,o ~ a,
ry,b rae,,i,, 10 III W. aan.i
her g3tb sin~Ia $40 @,aN 80 ,bs hond
arrsst tha r,addast ,,,h,rI 80 .hn dancs
and ;mno.a s;IeTca ,,,,on hor o,,tsoo.s ss
connIatelv 90 thoupS .hsr MA bse~
netrltied -~
A Conro State s,ear,or tooA Oh. o,,sa,
and her neoD,s bacs - ths;r ho oo s1 snd
one ~ ne mos, Honr;Sbinr ~ ths White ba
stations 9TH h,,iId;nrs 80 occo,nn8ndate
NAM neoria and VIII esids ~ -ice snS
3oci:s P end nod hss ar,ae,, =. .,,,,ehnrc
in the Rniaha conntrv se
The orastast J;scoycrv ~ all r.s nod.
bv M rranfelI the bymh,a r;ssionarv
and great travelsr who has seen far mora
of tba Congo basin thar sr vt otbar NJ hits
man I,,st r,as, - .ha ror3her,, hard ~
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AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Current Movements Of Interest in the
Religious World.

The Baptist Missionary Magazine re-
| ports bb7 baptisms, Of which EOS were on the
Ongole field, Telugu mission, India. in the
| month Of january, and three are the first bap
tisms reported from Mandalay, the capital Of
Upper Burmah. At the end of 1885 there were
in China $50 missionaries, 1888 native helpers,
2s1l9 communicates In churches, and 1854
pupils in schools; sle,s74 81 were contributed
by the native Christians for religious purposes
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church col
lected s167,Oas IS last year. II owns real estate
valued at S2i8760, and supports 0e mission
aries, with o. assistants, 227 medical workers
and Bible women and maintains Is boarding
houses and 200 day-sohools. The missions of
the society are chiefly In India. China, Japan.
Mexico and Bulgaria.
Rev. t. d. Witherspoon, Of the First
Presbyterian Church of Louisville, KY, has
been elected TO the chair of natural science In
Columbia, s. @. University, the chief theology
cal school of the Presbyterian Church. The
chair is that formerly filled by James Wood
row, whose teachings on evolution caused
great controversy in the church not yet set
tied.
at WI. bWi ~ AAOOoJ StUo oCnOoib
in Mortified over 500 young men and women
are being educated to become missionaries or
teachers and workers In every branch of
Christian effort. They are housed and taught
in well-appointed buildings, all Of which have
been paid for by an outlay OF over 100000.
The Turkish government officials have
now put the seal Of the Sultan on thirtytwo
editions Of the Arabic Scriptures and parts of
Scriptures, thus giving tho sanction OF the i'm
perial Caliph Of Islam for the free circulation
of the word OF God.
Missionaries have done more for tho
literary world than all the societies and insti-
tutions OF the earth. In the past eighty years
they have formed and reduced to writing over
forty languages.
Rev. DIR. Lindsey has declined the
bishopric Of the Maryland Diocese of Easton.
and Rev. William Il. Adams, of Ycksburg has
been elected instead.
During the last year . lac or 100000
of rupees, amounting to about $4,000. was
raised In India for the work of the Methodist
mission.
The Delaware Protestant Episcopal
Convention, after eleven Intellectual ballots for
bishop. has adjourned until December next.
There are now more than $50 medical
missionaries. 200 of whom are in heather lands
Bishop Hare, Of Niobrara, has con-
nrmed 1900 Indians during his episcopate.
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Myl sister, listen TO the rain,
Oh, oh what awful thunder;
If it should come that loud again
Would we be scared, I wonderf
They say it is from angels eyes,
Their watch on sinners keeping,
That all this water from the skies
In little drops falls, weeping.
And every time the lightnings fash
About the dizzy steeple,
IT'S Heavens warning to the rash
And evil-minded people.
And thunder is the voice of wrath,
In heavy tones complaining,
Of sinners in their evil path,
So wickedly remaining.
Oh. OIL that was an awful crack;
Look how the skies are weeping.
guess I'll put the cookies back
took while ma was sleeping.
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Every quietloving person with a noisy
piano and bevy Of unsteady -inclined girls
next door, willnow be moved to rise up and
call M. Gounod blessed. Being lately asked
by an anxious mother how much time girls
ought to devote daily 10 the study OF the
piano-forte in order to perfect their educa-
ton, the great French composer promptly
replied: las little time as possible for those
who are not going TO make 1t their profess
sion.n
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Relics OF Ancient London.

During the progress of excavations In Old
Broad street some strange discoveries have
been made. The site Is situated ut the back
Of Austin Friars, where monastic institu-
ton stood in the pre-Reformation times, and
the discoveries now made would indicate
that the religious building extended into
Broad street. As the debris Of the foundar
ton of some city offices was cleared away
several vaults constructed Of ancient brick
work and forming archways were found in
comparative state Of preservation, and In
one Of the vaults leadeR coffin containing
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the Congo's banks, and they will tell of
many villages that received them with
showers Of arrows, but soon laid down
their arrows, sold them food and fuel, and
begged the visitors to send white men to
live among them.
Travellers have not yet exhausted the
romance of exploration. Many tale of
recent research In the neglected corners
of the earth is as full of incident and In
terest as the quaint narrative that still
delights us of the days when Henry Hud-
son sailed into New York harbor and
Father Hennepin foated down the
Father of Waters" @. O. ADAMS.
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Balolo p ople
south of the
Congo; a tribe
who build their
huts In trees F;
frightened ma
tives who at
tackled I h Q m
with iron-head-
ed arrows three
or four fe Q t
long, that at q
d | 8 t nee of
nearly 200 yards
came W It'll q
sufficient force
to pierce the
stout canv as
awnings of the
steamer. They
will describe re-
gions that are
m ore densely
peopled than
any part of
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There IL an aldermanic combine thi,
year also. Instead Of being riveted with
Broadway railroad bolts, It 10 bound together
with electric wires.--Nes York Graphic.
But IL gets there Just the same.
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A use Is discovered for the thimble. II
worn while eating grapes to avoid staining
the finger with the fruit.--6an Francssco